The peer-reviewed journal article, perhaps the single most important device behind the expansion of scientific knowledge in the last century, is an extraordinarily expensive way to share novelty: e…

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From January 1st 2026, the CNRS will cut access to one of the largest commercial bibliometric databases, Clarivate Analytics'

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Synthetic metabolism has the potential to transform carbon capture, bioremediation, or bioproduction strategies. To transfer metabolic designs from an…

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The origin of eukaryotes represents one of the most significant events in evolution since it allowed the posterior emergence of multicellular organ...

The Surprisingly Simple Origins of Complex Life William Ratcliff, Georgia Tech   Life on Earth has repeatedly undergone dramatic increases in complexity via…

Understanding protein sequence-function relationships is complicated by high order epistatic interactions among residues, although the extent of these interactions remains uncertain. Here, the authors...

An engineered one-carbon-fixation pathway increases biomass yields of Cupriavidus necator compared with the Calvin cycle and can support future, sustainable bio-based production.

Evolvability—the capacity to generate adaptive variation—is a trait that can itself evolve through natural selection. However, the idea that mutation can become biased toward adaptive outcomes remains...

Sen. Ted Cruz released a database of over 3,400 National Science Foundation grants awarded towards what he deemed “questionable” research. Nineteen of the listed grants were Northeastern research proj...